Now she seeks to apply that same, clean aesthetic to one of the most chaotic sites on the Web.
He sought to apply his mathematical skills to areas that had not yet been extensively studied.
A devout Buddhist, he sought to apply the principles of detachment and concentration to the solving of international problems.
Chalmers was more concerned with the solution of human problems than with theological doctrines, and he sought to apply Christian ethics to economic issues.
Then, dispatched to Afghanistan to replace Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who had been fired by President Obama, he sought to apply the doctrine he had championed, while also applying an aggressive counterterrorism strategy.
He was collecting pebbles, rocks, shells, and bones, making drawings of them and studying them to find what he called "nature's principles of form and rhythm," which he sought to apply to his own sculpture.
His first volume of autobiography, An Only Child, is full of brief anecdotes and asides, which are recognisably the germ of later stories: how he drank his father's pint; how he decided he was a changeling; how he determined to murder his embarrassing grandmother; how he sought to apply the English public-school ethic in an Irish trades school.
What follows is a sketch of that method in Cohen's philosophy: how it emerged from his interpretation of Kant; how he sought to apply that method in epistemology and philosophy of science, as well as in ethics, political theory, and aesthetics; and finally, how he sought to articulate a view of religion as a necessary counterpart to philosophy done according to that method.
In 1909, the American historian and novelist Henry Adams finished an essay entitled "The Rule of Phase Applied to History", in which he sought to apply Gibbs's phase rule and other thermodynamic concepts to a general theory of human history.
Instead, they seek to apply international prohibitions against torture, arbitrary killing and other offenses that have been formally repudiated by nearly every government throughout the world.
